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Plot:
More than merely Deliverance in the Louisiana bayou, Walter Hill's taut little tale of weekend-warrior National Guardsmen on swamp exercises reverberates with echoes of Vietnam. Powers Booth br...( read more 
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MCT:August 3, 2008A hypnotic, constrained psychological film set amoungst towing trees and soggy ground so brilliantly photographed, that the film is an amazingly underrated.
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MCT:June 12, 2008LOVED this movie! Really exciting! Some guardsmen piss off the wrong backwoodsmen and spend the movie running for their life! Tense right up to the last SECOND!
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MCT:May 18, 2008
A excellent paranoia thriller that takes place in a swamp in the Louisana where eight National Guard members who are on a routine reconnaissance excerise, unwillingly and intentionally start an exhausting battle of wills and survival with some Cajuns who know the swamps like if their own backyard.
Director Walter Hill ("48 Hours", "Undisputed") and his screen-writers (David Giler and Michael Kane) have unveiled an expected surprise that surpasses even my expectations of a top-notch thriller.
As for the cast, Keith Carradine and Powers Boothe emerge here to give the best performances. Boothe is good as Hardin, who came to the unit as a transfer from Texas while Carradine is the relatively easy-going Spencer. Fred Ward and Alan Autry also deliver here as two members who are both troublesome in two different ways. Ward is the bully who doesn't need much to provoke a fight with anyone and Autry is the emotionally shell-shocked soldier whose fragile feelings are rocked when the unit's leader, Sargeant Poole (Peter Coyote) is unexpectedly shot and killed.
Some of the locals that the team run into are either harmless or polite instead of being stereotyped. However, the Cajuns that are seeking revenge are about as hard to find as the shark in the first half of "Jaws".
Even a few of the Hill regulars: musician Ry Cooder, photographer Andrew Laszlo, and production designer John Vallone add another key element to the movie. The look, the feel, and especially - the music fit the atmosphere like it should be and I was satisfied with that.
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MCT:April 15, 2008Walter Hill made a name for himself with The Warriors. People began to forget who he was after this silly mess. Decent actors, but no writing whatsoever. It's horribly lame.
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MCT:March 16, 2008On exercises in the swamps of Louisiana, some National Guardsmen provoke an indigenous Cajun trapper community and find themselves systematically hunted for sport. As Robert Aldrich's "Too Late the Hero" and John Boorman"s "Deliverance" covered somewhat similar ground, "Southern Comfort" wins no prizes for originality, but it's still an excellent, unusually intelligent action movie. Walter Hill assembles a cast of dependable B-listers -- including Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Peter Coyote and Brion James -- and Ry Cooder's bottleneck guitar perfectly compliments the hauntingly beautiful swampland scenery. The infighting of the National Guardsmen is generally well-handled, but the mutual antipathy between Ward and Boothe is rather improbably resolved . Also, considering that the Guardsmen have only been out in the swamp for a couple of days, the fact that three of them go a little doolally feels like two too many, at least. The tense finale is absolutely brilliantly executed. The use of booby-traps points the way to "First Blood", released the following year.
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MCT:December 19, 2007
National Guardsmen steal some boats from some Cajan swampmen and end up shits creek w/out a paddle. Solid casting as they all fight for their lives; mostly against each other..Another Walter Hill winner that will get you right in the boo-boo I granentee
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MCT:November 23, 2007
Saw this a few times when it came out so I must have thought it was okay. Either that or I still never got my head around the story. Something odd happened down on the bayou. I think we'd all wish we had more than just one bullet.
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MCT:September 27, 2007
very claustrophobic and angsty but brilliant! the soundtrack is wonderful, the emotions are high, there's suspence and I got to hear a few lines of genuine Cajun accent near the end.. ^^
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MCT:September 1, 2007
an all time classic, if it's your sort of thing. aparently the censorship said for children in adult company.mmm. not likely. tough boys getting grips with each from all walks of life. strong acting good filming
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MCT:July 14, 2007
Atmospheric variation on the Deliverance theme involving a collection of arrogant gun-toting rednecks in uniform biting off more than they can chew in the lawless louisiana swamp. Could also be read as an allegory of the US involvement and subsequent defeat in Vietnam (if you are so inclined.)
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MCT:July 10, 2007
This is a guilty pleasure for me. Most people probably never even heard of it1 I love the cajun music too.
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MCT:July 10, 2007
One of Walter Hill's forgotten classics. It does play out a tad like The Warriors meets Deliverance, but is that really a bad thing? ;)
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MCT:July 3, 2007
I really liked this movie, which I saw some time ago, it is very well acted and intelligent in it's direction, they mood and atmosphere of Cajun Country is brilliantly captured and the soundtrack is magnificent if you enjoy Cajun Music, which I do very much.
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MCT:May 14, 2007
More immediate in style and suspenseful than Deliverance, but inferior due to some implausibilities and two-dimensional supporting characters. Still, this film oozes tension and atmosphere and marvellously captures the beauty and danger of rural Lousiana.
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MCT:March 10, 2007
Grew up watching this one, over n over again, never got tired of it once, almost memorized every line ever said in the film, which really consisted mostly of four-letter words
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MCT:October 18, 2006I don't get the Idé of people don't speak english in the swamp of luisiana. Not a good movie I say. Why oh why do you shot strangers whit fake ammo??? Just stupid. The hole movie was stupid....Don't see it
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MCT:September 12, 2006
I don't know, mostly a showcase of extreme stupidity. You don't really care much about most of the characters, except maybe the main two guys. On the other hand, the movie IS pretty realistic.
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